A staff writer at the Washington Post, Karen DeYoung, wrote a story in late November about an initial meeting between President-elect Obama and Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We write here not to make a political comment about either of these individuals, but to praise the meeting methodology reported [...]
What Can We Do To Wake Them Up? One of our colleagues has a Friday morning ritual that he keeps as many Fridays as he can, meeting a group of friends at a Starbucks location for an hour of conversation that usually has a point. The friends all work in product development for a large [...]
The product manager took his idea to his vice-president for approval. The product manager wanted to develop a new, simpler, less expensive version of one of the company’s products, consistent with some of those “buzzy” articles that have appeared in marketing literature lately, suggesting that customers today are eager to acquire products that fit the [...]
There were eight of them at the front of the room, seated in a table arrangement that resembled a half-round. They were all “Millennials,” members of the mostly 20-something generation now entering the work force. They were completing a summer of interning at a Fortune 300 corporation, where they had engaged in a variety of [...]
